eat someone for breakfast

present singular third person eats someone for breakfast · participle present eating someone for breakfast · past ate someone for breakfast · participle past eaten someone for breakfast

1. figurativelyslangTo beat easily; to trounce.

   Worried? Nah, I eat punks like you for breakfast.

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   If you slip up, they're going to eat you for breakfast.

   A low-quality, fuel-thirsty small car that improved a bit during its last three years on the market. 1999 and earlier models eat engine head gaskets for breakfast and wallets for lunch.

   2009, Phil Edmonston, Lemon-Aid Used Cars and Trucks 2009-2010, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 115

   This guy's a lunatic, a psycho. He will eat you for breakfast. He won't even notice it probably, cause you're very, very, small.

   2023 April 5, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, spoken by Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy)

   Synonyms: eat someone's lunch, beat, bring down, convince, chew up, eat someone's lunch, flog, humble